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“Strapping on a mask of poverty in order to shed a decidedly middle-class background is something I have undoubtedly experienced with my fellow students in Cambridge.” Per Capita's Daisy Cox reviews Saltburn (2023). Read the article online: per-capita.co.uk/film/1316/.

“Who wants to be a job blocker?”, says Dame Mary Beard, as a group of Cambridge academics have condemned the university's Employer Justified Retirement Age policy as “ageist”. Read the article here: buff.ly/4eYjQq7

Student protesters' decision to close the Oxford University encampment due to legal pressure comes as the majority of student encampments established have been closed, in part due to hostility from University administrators. Read the article here: buff.ly/3y3rsa4

A 19 year-old Oxford University student, believed to be wearing academic dress, dove into the River Thames on Friday 21st June. Find out more here: buff.ly/4bKmgWx

EXCLUSIVE: Trinity College, Cambridge, has not officially approved Divestment Plans despite reports from @MiddleEastEye. One student claims that the college Master, Dame Sally Davies, is “too busy” to respond to student concerns. per-capita.co.uk/news-highlight…

A letter issued to Trinity College by The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians sets out the legal case regarding the college's potential complicity in war crimes and the crime of genocide. Find out more here: per-capita.co.uk/news-highlight…

Councillor Chloe Hawryluk says she wants to “reclaim” the Cambridge Union for working class people. The former Labour member argues @YoungLabourUK is “about connections” and declares the @93percentclub focuses too much on “CV Building”. per-capita.co.uk/features/5059/

Trinity College Cambridge has invested £61,000 in Elbit Systems, a supplier of 85% of Israel's drones. “This is no longer a question of politics but rather a question of humanity,” said a Trinity Student. Read the article here: per-capita.co.uk/news-highlight…. Reporting continues.

Birmingham's Poet Laureate, Jasmine Gardosi, defends the legitimacy of spoken word. Gardosi tells Per Capita about how she draws inspiration from the works of Anne Brontë to Benjamin Zephaniah. Read the article online: per-capita.co.uk/notebook/5006/

Pitchfork, “the most trusted voice in music” has merged with men's magazine GQ. Per Capita's Jermaine Lawal-Adewale argues that it is “one of the many tragic decisions in music journalism”. Read online here: per-capita.co.uk/music/4827/ ✍️ Jermaine Lawal-Adewale & Suchir Salhan

We are delighted to welcome award-winning author and literary critic Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL, a Fellow of @CaiusCollege, to Per Capita Media. Ruth has returned to support independent Cambridge student journalism close to thirty years after she edited the @MaysAnthology in 1995.

“We don’t want Superpowers in our Backyard”, says Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister speaking in Cambridge University. “Democracy is the best form of governance until we find something better”, he said. Find out more: per-capita.co.uk/news-highlight…

“I am sick of the British media.” Per Capita's Asha Kaur Birdi argues that the British Media stifles any “room for new ideas” in our politics. Read the article online: per-capita.co.uk/letters-and-co…

EXCLUSIVE: John Claughton, former @Eton_College Classics Master, says Labour's plan to strip Independent Schools of their charitable status “won't stop me from voting for them at the General Election”. Read the article online: per-capita.co.uk/news/news-high…

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